Product Innovation

Snyder's-Lance Opens New R&D Center
The sixty-thousand square foot, three story building was designed from the ground up to be environmentally friendly.
Project 7 Gains Executive Vice President of Sales
The new EVP of sales for Project 7 comes from Evolution Fresh, a premium juice company which was recently acquired by Starbucks.

WD-40 Launches First Product Line Extension

The new WD-40 Specialist line consists of five products: Rust Release Penetrant Spray; Water Resistant Silicone Lubricant; Protective White Lithium Grease; Long-Term Corrosion Inhibitor; and Rust Remover Soak.
Readers' Choice Survey 2012

For the 12th year in a row, CGT handed the microphone over to our readers to identify their most valued technology solutions and service providers across 10 categories. Based on their uncensored opinions and real-world experiences, the results are honest indicators of how the industry is approaching technology adoption.
General Mills Reveals Brand New Innovation Process

The General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network shares key insights of its X3 Process, a new approach developed to provide a step-by-step roadmap for the company's open innovation projects. Why share? General Mills anticipates others will find success using the non-linear approach to guide innovation efforts as well.
7 New Products Deemed Game Changing in 2012

The Good Housekeeping Research Institute deemed that these seven products were game-changers amongst a pool of more than 1,500 new products. Plus, Good Housekeeping readers voted for one Hall of Fame winner, a product that consumers can't seem to live without.
10 Predictions for Brand-Oriented Manufacturers

What will 2012 hold for Brand-Oriented Value Chain manufacturing supply chain organizations? How about intelligent innovation, Big Data dilemmas and social business, to name a few? Find out what other expectations IDC Manufacturing Insights has for consumer goods manufacturers in areas like supply chain, PLM, operations technology, IT, and more.
2012 Readers' Choice: New Product Development & Introduction

The Top 10 providers of a suite of software application or point solution for product management, including new product development, formulation, packaging, introduction and launch.
Moms Inspire Kimberly-Clark

Huggies' MomInspired grant program provides seed capital and resources to help fund women-owned business startups and new product innovations inspired by personal motherhood challenges and experiences.
2012 Readers' Choice: Editors' Picks

This years Readers Choice survey spans 10 categories, but some companies do not fit snugly into any one group. In response, we created the Editors Pick section to recognize solutions and service providers that are making a difference in the consumer goods industry and should be dually noted.